Web-Workers, React, and TypeScript: Off the main thread!

Web-Workers are an extreme powerful API which has been available for quite a while. It allow developers to split their tasks into multiple threads so the perceived performance is not damaged even when we must do extreme processing on the client-side. On this video, I will show you how to send your application state to a Web-Worker and have it processed without affecting the Main Thread performance! Blocking script? Never again! ⚡️


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📽 Chapters

0:25 Install dependencies 📦
1:16 Concepts: Sync / Async / Multi-Thread 🎓
3:08 What are Web-Workers? 🧐
4:34 Add Web-Worker support to tsconfig.json and webpack.config.js ⚙️
5:49 Small CSS adjustments for presentation purposes 🎨
6:15 Add components to App.tsx 🧩
8:20 Create thread-blocking task 🕰
9:41 Use the task inside a sync and inside an async function (Promise) 🙏
10:37 Add tasks to click handlers 🐭
12:11 Create the Web-Worker file 🚜
12:33 What does Comlink actually do? RPC + Proxy 📡
14:28 Add the Web-Worker to our runtime function calls in App.tsx 🛰
15:57 Example Showdown: Sync vs Async vs Mult-Thread 🥊
18:05 Final considerations 👋